Posts Tagged ‘Dmitri Shostakovich’
Feast of Russian Music Crowns San Diego Symphony’s Summer Season at Embarcadero Marina Park South
The ritual of culminating the San Diego Symphony’s Summer Pops season with canons and fireworks punctuating Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” is too much fun for everyone involved to give it up, and Associate Conductor Sameer Patel followed tradition on Friday, August 31, at Embarcadero Marina Park South.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Music Director Designate Rafael Payare Welcomed at the Jacobs Music Center
Surrounded by civic leaders and members of the San Diego Symphony board and orchestra, Symphony C.E.O. Martha Gilmer introduced Music Director Designate Rafael Payare to the press, symphony patrons, and representatives of other San Diego arts organizations Monday (April 30) at Copley Symphony Hall.
Read MoreJahja Ling Returns to San Diego Conducting an Inspired Shostakovich Fifth Symphony
Returning to the podium of the San Diego Symphony as Laureate Conductor, Jahja Ling presided over one of the more amazing performances of the 2017-18 season with a probing account of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov’s thrilling San Diego debut in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto.
Read MorePiano Virtuoso Igor Levit Plays Bach and Liszt for the La Jolla Music Society
Igor Levit’s piano recital for the La Jolla Music Society–alternately thrilling, serious, and a bit dour– at the Auditorium at TSRI began with a J. S. Bach transcription and culminated with Ferruccio Busoni’s monumental transcription of Franz Liszt’s grand organ solo, Fantasia and Fugue on “Ad Nos, ad Salutarum Undam.”
Read MoreAugustin Hadelich Brilliant in Shostakovich First Violin Concerto with San Diego Symphony
While local audiences respond warmly to highly accomplished performers, they can be a bit chilly to less familiar, modernist repertory of the last century.
Read MoreLang Lang Brings Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto to the Jacobs Music Center
Lang Lang’s return to the Jacobs Music Center on Sunday (February 5) was greeted with the expected fervid applause even before he and the San Diego Symphony delivered an equally passionate account of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto . . .
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